Comparison of the covetous man, who does not see the all-providingness of God and the (infinite) stores of His mercy, to an ant struggling with a single grain of wheat on a great threshing-floor and showing violent agitation and trembling and dragging it hurriedly along, unconscious of the amplitude of the threshing-floor.

مور بر دانه بدان لرزان شود ** که ز خرمنهای خوش اعمی بود

The ant trembles for a grain (of wheat) because it is blind to the goodly threshing-floors.

می‌کشد آن دانه را با حرص و بیم ** که نمی‌بیند چنان چاش کریم

It drags a grain along greedily and fearfully, for it does not see such a noble stack of winnowed wheat (as is there).

صاحب خرمن همی‌گوید که هی ** ای ز کوری پیش تو معدوم شی

The Owner of the threshing-floor is saying (to the ant), “Hey, thou who in thy blindness deemest nothing something,

تو ز خرمنهای ما آن دیده‌ای ** که در آن دانه به جان پیچیده‌ای

Thou hast regarded that (alone) as belonging to My threshing-floors, because thou art devoted with (all) thy soul to that (single) grain.”

Story of the person who was giving the drum-call for the sahúr at the gate of a certain palace at midnight. A neighbour said to him, “Why, it is midnight, it is not (yet) dawn; and besides, there is no one in this palace: for whose sake are you drumming?”—and the minstrel's reply to him.

آن یکی می‌زد سحوری بر دری ** درگهی بود و رواق مهتری

A certain man was drumming at a certain gate to announce the sahúr: ’twas a court-house and the pavilion of a grandee.

نیم‌شب می‌زد سحوری را به جد ** گفت او را قایلی کای مستمد

(Whilst) he was beating his drum vigorously at midnight, some one said to him, “O thou who art seeking (the means of) support,

اولا وقت سحر زن این سحور ** نیم‌شب نبود گه این شر و شور

Firstly, give this call to the sahúr at daybreak: midnight is not the time for (making) this disturbance;

دیگر آنک فهم کن ای بوالهوس ** که درین خانه درون خود هست کس

And secondly, observe, O man of vain desire, whether in fact there is any one inside this house at midnight.